What is Vision 2020 initiative?

In 1999, the agency signed alongside another 20 international non-governmental organizations a collaboration agreement with World Health Organization to promote the global initiative VISION 2020: The Right to Sight.

“The aim of VISIÓN 2020 initiative is to eliminate the main causes of avoidable and treatable blindness by 2020.”

Since VISION 2020 project was created, international efforts have been focused on areas such as advocacy, resource mobilisation, joint planning and national capabilities strengthening by means of human resource development and transference of necessary technologies to developing countries

What can I do to adhere to Vision 2020 initiative?

Ramon Martí i Bonet Foundation. Vision 2020.

On a personal level, you can collaborate with support and action members of the initiative, as well as collaborate with other entities working at a local and international level to improve eye health of people with no economic resources in order to prevent avoidable blindness cases. Donations can also be made or you can volunteer supporting and providing the necessary tools to those who fight every day to grant everybody the right to sight. Ramon Martí i Bonet Foundation carries out this task by means of its Vision for everybody in Catalonia project and through its international ongoing projects in India, Nicaragua, Peru and Ukraine.